BOISE, Idaho — Corpus Commons, the Treasure Valley's only daytime shelter, is hosting a gingerbread house contest to raise critical funds as demand for its services continues to surge amid rising housing costs.

Greenlee Clark / Idaho News 6

The organization was founded more than 25 years ago by a group of Mennonites and Catholics who identified a critical gap in services when homeless individuals had to leave overnight shelters in the morning, with nowhere else to go all day.

"There were at that time, the homeless would stay at the Boise Rescue Mission which was over on Front Street or Community House which was run by the city of Boise and it was over on 13th Street and they would stay there overnight and then they had to leave in the morning and fend for themselves for the entire day,"

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